July 11, 2008
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Baker slides, University Co-op School, 13 July 1945.
This issue’s image is part of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool’s Everett Baker slide collection housed at the University Archives. For four decades starting in the 1930s, Baker traveled the province documenting the life and times of ordinary Saskatchewan people. Employed as a field man for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool from 1935-1957, he took photographs until his eyesight began to fail in 1970. In addition to a clarity and natural feel to them, each slide is annotated with the date, location and a description of the activity captured. This particular image is of the “Pool Field Staff at the University Co-op School on 13 July 1945”.
As to the subject of the image, in 1937 the U of S hosted the first five-day Co-operative School in the province. A series of one-day schools had proved popular in the 1920s but had disappeared during the early days of the depression. The revised program offered classes in accounting, marketing and history of the co-operative movement. Within a few years, several five-day co-op summer schools were being offered in various locations around the province. The U of S continued to host schools until the 1960s.
By Patrick Hayes
U of S Archives
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